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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: Bloody News, From Page 199 Through Page 269.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately how many Armenians were slaughtered in Diarbekir in 1915?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 75,000.
(d) 150,000.

2. To which American writer did Balakian send his poems while at Bucknell College?
(a) Allen Ginsberg.
(b) Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
(c) Robert Pirsig.
(d) Jack Kerouac.

3. What kind of car did the Aroosian women drive during their house-viewing expeditions in 1958?
(a) A Cadillac.
(b) A Ford.
(c) A Chevrolet.
(d) An Oldsmobile.

4. Whom did Saroyan consider his "rival"?
(a) Fitzgerald.
(b) Faulkner.
(c) O'Connor.
(d) Hemingway.

5. What was the lowest mark Balakian's female relatives gave to the houses they viewed during their Sunday drives?
(a) Next.
(b) Hum hum.
(c) F.
(d) Ugly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the significance of Mt. Ararat?

2. In what New Jersey town did Bedros Aroosian work in the silk mills?

3. In what city was the attorney's office which helped Balakian's grandmother file the compensation claim?

4. In his discussion of his Aunt Anna's education, what did Balakian say was the percentage of female PhD's in the early 1940s?

5. Approximately how many Armenian women were forced to dance in the Diarbekir square when Dovey saw them?

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